WO2021119309A1 - Systèmes et procédés d'utilisation de moteurs d'adhésion à un groupe dynamique de répertoire actif pour accorder un accès - Google Patents

Systèmes et procédés d'utilisation de moteurs d'adhésion à un groupe dynamique de répertoire actif pour accorder un accès Download PDF

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WO2021119309A1
WO2021119309A1 PCT/US2020/064307 US2020064307W WO2021119309A1 WO 2021119309 A1 WO2021119309 A1 WO 2021119309A1 US 2020064307 W US2020064307 W US 2020064307W WO 2021119309 A1 WO2021119309 A1 WO 2021119309A1
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Stephen ROSMANN
Lindsey Barber
Pradeep JONNALAGADDA
Hunter MITCHELL
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  • Embodiments are generally directed to systems and methods for using active directory dynamic group membership engines to grant access.
  • a method for using active directory dynamic group membership engines to grant access may include: (1) receiving from a user electronic device, a request for privileged access to access a resource; (2) decisioning and granting the request for privileged access to the resource; (3) adding the user to an active directory group for privileged access to the resource, wherein the privileged access may be limited to a time period; and (4) removing the user from the active directory group for privileged access upon expiration of the time period.
  • the request may be decisioned automatically.
  • a user identifier for the user may be added to the active directory group for privileged access.
  • the method may further include recording user activities associated with the privileged access to the resource.
  • the user activities may be mapped to a user id for the user.
  • the resource may include a block storage appliance or a block storage application.
  • the access request may be in response to a trouble ticket, and the access request may be automatically generated in response to a trouble ticket.
  • the time period may be based on a task to be performed, a security level of the resource, etc.
  • an active directory dynamic group membership system may include: an active directory dynamic group membership engine comprising at least one computer processor; a mapping database; and a resource.
  • the active directory dynamic group membership engine receives, from a user electronic device, a request for privileged access to access the resource; may grant the request for privileged access to the resource; may add the user to an active directoiy group for privileged access to the resource by adding a user id to a mapping database, wherein the privileged access may be limited to a time period; and may remove the user from the active directory group for privileged access by removing the user id from the mapping database upon expiration of the time period.
  • the active directory dynamic group membership engine may decision the request automatically.
  • the active directory dynamic group membership engine may receive authorization for the request.
  • the active directory dynamic group membership engine may record user activities associated with the privileged access to the resource.
  • the user activities may be mapped to the user id.
  • the resource may include a block storage appliance or a block storage application.
  • the access request may be in response to a trouble ticket, and the access request may be automatically generated in response to a trouble ticket.
  • the time period may be based on a task to be performed, a security level of the resource, etc.
  • Figure 1 depicts a system for using active directory dynamic group membership engines to grant access according to one embodiment
  • Figure 2 depicts a method for using active directory dynamic group membership engines to grant access according to one embodiment
  • Figure 3 depicts an exemplary user interface according to one embodiment
  • Figure 4 depicts an exemplary user interface according to another embodiment
  • Figure 5 depicts an exemplary user interface according to another embodiment.
  • Embodiments are directed to managing privileged access while maintaining Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance.
  • Embodiments are directed to an Active Directory Dynamic Group Membership Engine that adds and removes users from active directory (AD) groups based on trouble tickets and manager approval.
  • Embodiments limit privileged access to specific environments, requires manager pre-approval for privileged access, ensures actions are easily traceable to a user, and grants temporary access to applications on an as-needed basis.
  • Embodiments may provide some or all of the following: commands executed may be traceable back to a user except when a functional identifier is necessary; (2) embodiments may not allow standing access to broad environments; (3) embodiments may rotate authentication credentials periodically (e.g., every 60 seconds); (4) embodiments resolve access management issues to appliances and applications that do not integrate with other solutions; and (5) embodiments may provide user group mappings to a certification process.
  • System 100 may include user 110 that may submit a request to access one or more resource, such as a block storage appliance/application 150 using electronic device 120.
  • User 110 may submit request to active directory dynamic group membership engine 135, which may be hosted by server 130.
  • Server 130 may be a physical server, a cloud- based server, combinations thereof, etc.
  • active directory dynamic group membership engine 135 may write mappings of users to entitlements in mapping database 140.
  • a method for using active directory dynamic group membership engines to grant access is disclosed according to an embodiment.
  • a user may submit a request for privileged access to access one or more resource, such as block storage appliances and/or applications, to an active directory dynamic group membership engine.
  • the access request is in response to a trouble ticket.
  • the access request may be automatically generated in response to a trouble ticket.
  • the active directory dynamic group membership engine may decision and grant the access.
  • the decisioning may be automated; in another embodiment the decisioning may be manual. In still another embodiment, a combination of automated and manual decisioning may be used.
  • FIG. 4 An exemplary request approval screen is provided in Figure 4, and Figure 5 depicts an exemplary group membership admin screen.
  • the approved user may be added to an active directory group, and the access may be time limited.
  • the access may be limited to 60 seconds, an hour, a day, etc.
  • the length of the access may be based on the task to be performed, the security level of the resource, etc.
  • the user’s user id may be added to the active directory group for privileged access.
  • the user id may be a standard ID (“SID”), a management ID (“MID”), etc.
  • SID standard ID
  • MID management ID
  • a MID may be assigned to a user, wherein as a FID may be assigned to a device or an application.
  • the user id may be added to a mapping database, which may map the user id to the active directory group.
  • the user may use the access to access the resource(s), such as the block storage appliances and/or applications.
  • user’s activities with the resources may be stored and associated with the user id.
  • the user’s activities may be associated with the user id and may be stored in a database. This may be, for example, for audit purposes.
  • step 250 upon expiration of the privileged access, the user’s access is revoked, and in step 260, the user is removed from the active directory group.
  • the user’s user id may be removed from the active directory group for privileged access.
  • the user id may be removed from the mapping database.
  • step 270 the user’s privileged access is removed.
  • the system of the invention or portions of the system of the invention may be in the form of a “processing machine,” such as a general- purpose computer, for example.
  • processing machine is to be understood to include at least one processor that uses at least one memory.
  • the at least one memory stores a set of instructions.
  • the instructions may be either permanently or temporarily stored in the memory or memories of the processing machine.
  • the processor executes the instructions that are stored in the memory or memories in order to process data.
  • the set of instmctions may include various instmctions that perform a particular task or tasks, such as those tasks described above.
  • Such a set of instructions for performing a particular task may be characterized as a program, software program, or simply software.
  • the processing machine may be a specialized processor.
  • the processing machine executes the instructions that are stored in the memory or memories to process data.
  • This processing of data may be in response to commands by a user or users of the processing machine, in response to previous processing, in response to a request by another processing machine and/or any other input, for example.
  • the processing machine used to implement the invention may be a general-purpose computer.
  • the processing machine described above may also utilize any of a wide variety of other technologies including a special purpose computer, a computer system including, for example, a microcomputer, mini-computer or mainframe, a programmed microprocessor, a micro-controller, a peripheral integrated circuit element, a CSIC (Customer Specific Integrated Circuit) or ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) or other integrated circuit, a logic circuit, a digital signal processor, a programmable logic device such as a FPGA, PLD, PLA or PAL, or any other device or arrangement of devices that is capable of implementing the steps of the processes of the invention.
  • a special purpose computer including, for example, a microcomputer, mini-computer or mainframe, a programmed microprocessor, a micro-controller, a peripheral integrated circuit element, a CSIC (Customer Specific Integrated Circuit) or ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) or other integrated circuit, a logic circuit, a digital
  • the processing machine used to implement the invention may utilize a suitable operating system.
  • embodiments of the invention may include a processing machine running the iOS operating system, the OS X operating system, the Android operating system, the Microsoft WindowsTM operating systems, the Unix operating system, the Linux operating system, the Xenix operating system, the IBM AIXTM operating system, the Hewlett- Packard UXTM operating system, the Novell NetwareTM operating system, the Sun Microsystems SolarisTM operating system, the OS/2TM operating system, the BeOSTM operating system, the Macintosh operating system, the Apache operating system, an OpenStepTM operating system or another operating system or platform.
  • each of the processors and/or the memories of the processing machine may be located in geographically distinct locations and connected so as to communicate in any suitable manner.
  • each of the processor and/or the memory may be composed of different physical pieces of equipment. Accordingly, it is not necessary that the processor be one single piece of equipment in one location and that the memory be another single piece of equipment in another location. That is, it is contemplated that the processor may be two pieces of equipment in two different physical locations. The two distinct pieces of equipment may be connected in any suitable manner. Additionally, the memory may include two or more portions of memory in two or more physical locations.
  • processing is performed by various components and various memories.
  • the processing performed by two distinct components as described above may, in accordance with a further embodiment of the invention, be performed by a single component.
  • the processing performed by one distinct component as described above may be performed by two distinct components.
  • the memory storage performed by two distinct memory portions as described above may, in accordance with a further embodiment of the invention, be performed by a single memory portion.
  • the memory storage performed by one distinct memory portion as described above may be performed by two memory portions.
  • various technologies may be used to provide communication between the various processors and/or memories, as well as to allow the processors and/or the memories of the invention to communicate with any other entity; i.e., so as to obtain further instructions or to access and use remote memory stores, for example.
  • Such technologies used to provide such communication might include a network, the Internet, Intranet,
  • Extranet LAN
  • Ethernet wireless communication via cell tower or satellite
  • client server system that provides communication
  • Such communications technologies may use any suitable protocol such as TCP/IP, UDP, or OSI, for example.
  • a set of instructions may be used in the processing of the invention.
  • the set of instructions may be in the form of a program or software.
  • the software may be in the form of system software or application software, for example.
  • the software might also be in the form of a collection of separate programs, a program module within a larger program, or a portion of a program module, for example.
  • the software used might also include modular programming in the form of object oriented programming. The software tells the processing machine what to do with the data being processed.
  • the instructions or set of instructions used in the implementation and operation of the invention may be in a suitable form such that the processing machine may read the instructions.
  • the instructions that form a program may be in the form of a suitable programming language, which is converted to machine language or object code to allow the processor or processors to read the instructions. That is, written lines of programming code or source code, in a particular programming language, are converted to machine language using a compiler, assembler or interpreter.
  • the machine language is binary coded machine instructions that are specific to a particular type of processing machine, i.e., to a particular type of computer, for example. The computer understands the machine language.
  • any suitable programming language may be used in accordance with the various embodiments of the invention.
  • the programming language used may include assembly language, Ada, APL, Basic, C, C++, COBOL, dBase, Forth, Fortran, Java, Modula-2, Pascal, Prolog, REXX, Visual Basic, and/or JavaScript, for example.
  • assembly language Ada
  • APL APL
  • Basic Basic
  • C C
  • C++ C++
  • COBOL COBOL
  • dBase Forth
  • Fortran Fortran
  • Java Modula-2
  • Pascal Pascal
  • Prolog Prolog
  • REXX REXX
  • Visual Basic Visual Basic
  • JavaScript JavaScript
  • the instructions and/or data used in the practice of the invention may utilize any compression or encryption technique or algorithm, as may be desired.
  • An encryption module might be used to encrypt data.
  • files or other data may be decrypted using a suitable decryption module, for example.
  • the invention may illustratively be embodied in the form of a processing machine, including a computer or computer system, for example, that includes at least one memory.
  • the set of instructions i.e., the software for example, that enables the computer operating system to perform the operations described above may be contained on any of a wide variety of media or medium, as desired.
  • the data that is processed by the set of instructions might also be contained on any of a wide variety of media or medium. That is, the particular medium, i.e., the memory in the processing machine, utilized to hold the set of instructions and/or the data used in the invention may take on any of a variety of physical forms or transmissions, for example.
  • the medium may be in the form of paper, paper transparencies, a compact disk, a DVD, an integrated circuit, a hard disk, a floppy disk, an optical disk, a magnetic tape, a RAM, a ROM, a PROM, an EPROM, a wire, a cable, a fiber, a communications channel, a satellite transmission, a memory card, a SIM card, or other remote transmission, as well as any other medium or source of data that may be read by the processors of the invention.
  • the memory or memories used in the processing machine that implements the invention may be in any of a wide variety of forms to allow the memory to hold instructions, data, or other information, as is desired.
  • the memory might be in the form of a database to hold data.
  • the database might use any desired arrangement of files such as a flat file arrangement or a relational database arrangement, for example.
  • a user interface includes any hardware, software, or combination of hardware and software used by the processing machine that allows a user to interact with the processing machine.
  • a user interface may be in the form of a dialogue screen for example.
  • a user interface may also include any of a mouse, touch screen, keyboard, keypad, voice reader, voice recognizer, dialogue screen, menu box, list, checkbox, toggle switch, a pushbutton or any other device that allows a user to receive information regarding the operation of the processing machine as it processes a set of instructions and/or provides the processing machine with information.
  • the user interface is any device that provides communication between a user and a processing machine.
  • the information provided by the user to the processing machine through the user interface may be in the form of a command, a selection of data, or some other input, for example.
  • a user interface is utilized by the processing machine that performs a set of instructions such that the processing machine processes data for a user.
  • the user interface is typically used by the processing machine for interacting with a user either to convey information or receive information from the user.
  • the user interface of the invention might interact, i.e., convey and receive information, with another processing machine, rather than a human user. Accordingly, the other processing machine might be characterized as a user.
  • a user interface utilized in the system and method of the invention may interact partially with another processing machine or processing machines, while also interacting partially with a human user.

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Des systèmes et des procédés d'utilisation de moteurs d'adhésion à un groupe dynamique de répertoire actif pour accorder un accès sont divulgués. Dans un mode de réalisation, dans un moteur d'adhésion à un groupe dynamique de répertoire actif comprenant au moins un processeur informatique, un procédé d'utilisation de moteurs d'adhésion à un groupe dynamique de répertoire actif pour accorder un accès peut consister à : (1) recevoir, en provenance d'un dispositif électronique d'utilisateur, une demande d'accès privilégié pour accéder à une ressource; (2) prendre des décisions et octroyer la demande d'accès privilégié à la ressource; (3) ajouter l'utilisateur à un groupe de répertoire actif assurant un accès privilégié à la ressource, l'accès privilégié étant limité dans le temps; et (4) supprimer l'utilisateur du groupe de répertoire actif assurant un accès privilégié à l'expiration de la période de temps.
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